A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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OF THE SUB-ORDINARIES.
and set out his cousin, good Sir James Douglas, with all necessaries to assist King
Robert the Bruce.
The name of SHAW, argent, a cheveron between three fusils erminois, so carried
by SHAW of Eltham, in Kentshire, Baronet ; as in the Art of Heraldry, a little
book lately set out.
When the field is filled all over with fusils, alternately of metal and colour, it
is then said to be fusilly ; the Latins, fusilatum ; or thus, fits
is aureis 1st aeruleis
interstinctum, i. e. fusilly or and azure, the arms of the ancient kingdom of Aus-
trasia.
DUEBECK., an ancient family in Normandy, fusilly, argent and gules, the French
blazon fusele ff argent, et de gueules ; the same arms are
Monaco in Genoa.
borne by the GRIMALDI de
As I said before of the lozenges, so now of the fusils, that when the field or
any figure is filled with them, being erected in pale, they are then only blazoned
fusilly; but, when they are horizontally, fusilly
in fosse, or in bur; if diagonally to
the left, in bend-sinister, and according to the French, bar-ways; and when diagonally
to the right, in bend ; for an example, I here give the arms of the Princes of
BAVARIA in the Empire, fig. 21. which the French blazon thus, Fusele en bande
d? argent et d'azur dc vingt-et-une pieces, qui est de Earner ; here the French number
the fusils ; but it is not usual with us to tell their number when there are so
many, and the shield filled with them ; we only say, fusilly in bend-dexter, argent
and azure.
The Prince PALATINE of the RHINE, Elector,
the Duke of DEUX FONTS and of NEWBURG, as
the Duke of BAVARIA, Elector,
descended from one stem. The
house of BAVARIA carry the same arms, but
viz. the Elector of BAVARIA has three coats
differently
in distinct
disposed or marshalled,
escutcheons, two acolle
joined together, and one below. On the first, tha arms of the PALATINATE, viz. sable ,
a lion rampant or, crowned and langued gules contourne, after the German fashion ;
looking to the other escutcheon of arms on the left, which is, fusilly in bend, argent
azure, for BAVARIA ; and, the third escutcheon below both, is gules, charged with
the imperial globes or, for the electorship.
The Prince PALATINE of the RHINE carries the same three armorial bearings,
otherwise marshalled in an escutcheon, viz. the PALATINATE, parti with BAVARIA,
and ente in base, the globe, as elector. Which way of marshalling I have spoke
to before in my Essay of the Ancient and Modern Use of Arms.
OF THE FRET, FRETTED, AND FRETTY.
I THOUGHT fit to treat of this figure here, because it is somewhat of kin to the
mascle; for it is said to he composed of a mascle and two battons, dexter and sinis-
ter, braced or interlaced together, as fig. 22.
Mr Thomas Crawfurd, in the Fragment of his Manuscript of Heraldry, now to
be met with, says, the fret is composed of a saltier and mascle, and is a badge of
fastness and fidelity, like a knot or tie of ribbons. The English, I find, take it so,
and call it the love knot ; and by some Harringtons knot, because carried by them
lor their armorial figure ; with the motto, Nodo firmo. But since it is borne by
other ancient and honourable families, it ought not to be appropriate to that family ;
and is called by some English heralds, heraldorum nodus amatorim, the heralds' love
knot ; because it is devised by them as an armorial figure ; and so Mr Gibbon blazons
the arms of HARRINGTON, Clypeum atrum heraldico veri amoris nodo impressum ar-
genteo \, e. sable, a fret argent, as fig. 22.
The family of MALTRAVERS, in England, sable, a fret or; the English, of old,
latined it, fretfum simplex ; and Imhoff, in the blazon of SPENCER Earl of SUN-
DERLAND, latins it, clatbrum, a grate or lattice.
With us, the surname of M'CULLOCH bears ermine, a fret gules.
Sir GODFREY M'CuLLocn of MYRTON, Knight and Baronet, ermine,
a fret in-
grailed gules; crest, a hand throwing a dart, proper : motto, VI IS animo, as fig, 23.
Lyon Register.